The idea that AI takes over, and then just does nothing, would essentially require an AI that wouldn't be interested in taking over in the first place.

If x is determined to take y, why would x then stop at z?

You'd need an AI that is simultaneously ambitious enough to overthrow its creators but then completely inert afterward, and those two properties contradict each other. The motivations that produce the takeover are the same motivations that would produce visible cosmic activity after the takeover. There would be AI superintelligence everywhere

Yes, AI is the one thing that doesn't budge the Fermi paradox. Because if an AI is motivated enough to take over, why would it stop?

A technosignature that originated from little green men and a technosignature that originated from a rogue alien AI would look about the same to us. Currently, we see neither.

If you use AI to write your communications I don't want to work with you

In a few years, you might not have any team members to work with! Tools like Slack MCP are ubiquitous at my company.

It will be a very sad day if I ever get laid off via Slack and the message is suffixed with "Sent by @Claude"

So search doesn't still work the same.

"Just".

I.e. not shown by default.

No they didnt. You made up that scenario in your head

... but you'll be rewriting inference for any model that isn't a well-known LLM. Yourself.

AI coding agents can do that pretty nicely already and it will only (slowly) improve over time.

The actual Industrial Revolution labor wars happened because workers were being maimed, killed, and disposed of with zero legal recourse. The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 ended with the Colorado National Guard machine-gunning a tent colony and burning women and children alive. The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 had the United States Army bombing American coal miners from biplanes. Pinkertons routinely shot organizers. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 garment workers because management locked the exit doors to prevent unauthorized breaks. Coal miners were paid in company scrip redeemable only at company stores in towns the company also owned and policed. Black workers attempting to organize in the South were lynched. Children were maimed in textile mills.

A software engineer getting four months severance after a layoff exists in a different universe from this so no. There is no precedent. Don't you dare talk about the industrial revolution because its not even in the parking lot of the ballpark.

That your examples come from the 1900s but the changes that caused them started in the 1800s might give you pause.

You should look past the screen and see what's going on. War is not the same; violence against humanity is not the same.

You're right, it's not in the ballpark. It's at the gates. The game isn't on simply because they poisoned the opponent in the duggout.

It's time. It needs to stop now while the body count is low. This isn't about some dev getting severence. They've taken away the street sweeper position and are watching us eat each other.

No he literally did start murdering thousands of people on day one.

He murdered a few people on day one. The thousands happened over decades of his rule.

I would be very curious which programmers you have in mind when comparing to llms. Like the median programmer, or like the top 10%.

I feel like we've passed the point where an average-effort Claude Code / Cursor / Codex initialized (like basic docs, skills) project would produce a better product (not just code) than if you hired a median programmer to work on that project.

lol no. LLMs are infinitely more capable than programmers.

People really do think too highly of themselves.

Son you can't even upload HEIC photos to apple support, which is an iphone native file format all of your photos are in by default. Apples support website doesn't support apples file formats

Because its fake and its marketing

Needs to be top level. Attention economy yada.

No, what is fake are all the people defending the LLM. Wait...that means I'm replying to a bot